Friday, December 2, 2011

New Resources for November

Noteworthy additions in November include Annie Jonas' dissertation, Practices of Two Experiential Teachers in Secondary Public Schools in an Era of Accountability (373.110209756 J76p), and Beverly Ohler's For the Love of Animals: Stories from the Mother of a Veterinarian (636.0887 O37f). A list of the items we added last month are listed on our page of Recent Additions to Our Collection.

For December, we are pleased to feature some of our newspaper resources. Newspaper Source Plus includes the full text of The New York Times from 1985 to the present.*  It also provides cover-to-cover full text for 149 other national and international newspapers, such as The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), The Age, The Australian, The Toronto Star, The Irish Times and others; and selective full text for more than 410 U.S newspapers, including The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full-text television & radio news transcripts are provided
from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, National Public Radio (NPR), etc.

* In case you are wondering: yes, we also have the New York Times Historical, which contains full-image articles of the newspaper back to the very first issue in 1851 up through 2007.
 Our featured electronic resource last month was Credo Reference, a collection of reference works.

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